2006 ANNUAL MEETING
TO BE IN NASHVILLE

May 5-7

The
Nashville Chapter extends an invitation to all TOS members across
the state to attend the 2006 Annual Meeting, to be held May
5-7. We welcome you to Music City to enjoy the Sights and Sounds
of Spring.

The
meeting will be headquartered at the Steeplechase Inn located
at 5581 Franklin Pike Circle in Brentwood TN, off I-65 at Exit
74-A. The hotel is holding rooms for TOS members through April
10, 2006. Mention your TOS membership for the special rate of
$55.00, plus tax, per night for a room or $75.99, plus tax,
for a suite (the suite has a separate bedroom and a living room
with a sleeper sofa, great bargain for a small group of friends
or two couples). Also included is a Deluxe Complimentary Breakfast.
Members are encouraged to make reservations well in advance.

Registration
will be held Friday evening, May 5, from 5:30-8:30 P.M. in Suite
401 at the Steeplechase Inn and from 6:30-7:00 A.M. on Saturday.
Field trips will depart from the Steeplechase Inn parking lot
on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 7:00.

The
TOS Board Meeting and the Saturday evening banquet will take
place at the Ed Jones Auditorium, Ellington Agricultural Center,
just a few miles from the hotel.

The
registration fee for the weekend event will be $20.00. The Saturday
evening buffet supper will include barbeque pork and chicken
and cost $15.00 per person. Please notify Amy Potter (see below)
if you are interested in a vegetarian option. Registration and
dinner payments must be received by April 15. Send checks to:
Amy Potter, 616 Indian Ridge Drive Nashville TN 37221.

Our
speaker will be award winning nature photographer, speaker,
writer, and educator Bobby Harrison. Currently he is associate
professor and director of the Art Program at Oakwood College
in Huntsville, Alabama. His articles and photographs have appeared
in many calendars and magazines. Since February 2004 Mr. Harrison
has been engaged in the on-going Ivory-billed Woodpecker research
project in eastern Arkansas.

Field
trips Saturday will include the locales you have grown to know
and love in the Nashville area such as Radnor Lake State Natural
Area, Shelby Bottoms and Beaman Park, a new 1,200 acre Metro/Davidson
County park. Sunday will provide an opportunity to check these
areas again, and explore others.